Posted: 4/19/2016 1:16:51 AM EDT
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I need to change hosting for my wife website from Wordpress to Square Space. Is there any way to do this without losing her search ranking on Google, ect? She is the top result on Google for her type of business and that brings her a lot of business, but Wordpress is a pain in the ass and we are looking to dump it.
If anyone can help her make the switch without losing the ranking, there could be some ammo or mags in it for you... 
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As long as she owns the domain and the content, moving the host itself won't change her ranking. If she gets all of her SEO (search engine optimization) and content done via wordpress, then that could be a problem. If she has to rebuild the site at the new place, you are essentially starting from scratch. That doesn't mean you can't put everything together the same way, but I am not familiar with Square Space and websites are not my specialty. It's much easier to build sites these days with these specialty providers, but it makes it much harder to move.
Sorry that isn't much help.. hopefully someone here actually does this kind of thing. |
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First post is correct, as long as the domain and website data (metadata) itself don't change, you shouldn't notice a change in search results. You're only changing where the data is housed, results are based on what the data is and the traffic quantity/quality to that data.
ETA - I think wordpress does subdomains, so if she has one and switches, that WOULD affect the results. For example, if her domain is www.MyWifesWebsite.WordPress.com, that's a subdomain which would obviously change with the provider. I'm hoping that's not the case. |
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Crawlers love back-links so make sure if she is revamping her website that she looks to see what URLs have the largest number of back links and make sure she replicates them. Last thing she wants is to have a URL with a large number of back links end in a 404 error that will kill your rankings real quick and in a hurry.
Example: If she has the URL mydomain.com/randomthought.html and that has a lot of back links make sure she replicates the URL with the new host. The content doesn't need to be the same just the URL (same address). To check back links you can use a tool like one from Majestic https://majestic.com/reports/site-explorer?folder=&q=Anydomain.com&IndexDataSource=F switching host can be a scary proposition and more consequential than many people think specially if you are moving platforms (like in your case). Hope this helps! |